Modality and Propositional Attitudes

ISBN-13: 9781107449985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 301 str.

Michael Hegarty

Opis

The semantics for modal interpretation yields two types of belief ascriptions, elucidating various semantic phenomena and fluent aphasia.

Recenzje

'Hegarty's text is unique in a number of ways … the book is well worth the journey … for those who question the empirical scientific import of formal semantics,this book also serves as a powerful testimony to the viability of the field and its formalisms.' Ryan Mark Nefdt, The Linguist List (linguistlist.org)

Spis treści

Part I. Modality and Propositional Attitudes: 1. Epistemic modality; 2. Root modality; 3. Bare attitude ascriptions; 4. Presupposition filtering and bouletic ascriptions; Part II. Events and Propositional Attitudes: 5. Events and states; 6. Full attitude ascriptions: individuating mental states through propositional content; 7. Lower interpretation of negation; 8. Events in epistemic and root modal interpretation; 9. Attitude ascription in child development and Wernicke's aphasia.